(1) The euro elite insists it is representing the interests of Portuguese or Irish taxpayers who have to pick up the bill for bailing out the feckless Greeks – or will be enraged by any debt forgiveness when they have been forced to swallow similar medicine.
(2) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(3) Feckless Tom Bertram is a haunter of seaside resorts.
(4) The right is very flexible on industrial action: in the 80s striking miners were characterised as violent and feckless, despite being unarmed against mounted police and arguably the opposite of feckless – battling to keep backbreaking jobs.
(5) Feckless in all other respects, Richard feels protective towards Walter, which is why he won't sleep with Patty.
(6) The targets of Karzai's often intemperate outbursts were equally frustrated, dubbing the president "feckless" and "unreliable", briefing that he was "paranoid" and possibly abusing prescription drugs.
(7) Rayner later said of her parents that "they were very young and very feckless".
(8) The problem, however, of grand multipara who are feckless, ignorant and of low social class, still remains.
(9) That the EU is seeking greater powers to steal the money of rich nations to deal with the feckless Spanish and Greeks.
(10) It’s not as easy for them as cutting benefits, which could simply be depicted as taking candy from obese babies and their feckless mothers.
(11) And on tax and capitalism in general, public opinion is, if anything, moving leftwards, as tax cheats and feckless bankers solidify into popular demons.
(12) Jesse James, a cold-blooded killer, lived a simple life: he murdered people, he robbed banks, he got shot in the back by feckless confederates, he died.
(13) The BBC has upheld complaints against Top Gear over Richard Hammond's comments that Mexicans are "lazy, feckless [and] flatulent".
(14) The bromance sub-genre suggests a perpendicular solution to similar issues: friendship replaces sex, and in the sharp Role Models , bromantically involved Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott also form surrogate parental bonds with feckless males-in-training Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Bobb'e J Thompson .
(15) Their analysis – that the problem is worklessness – is wrong; their assumptions – that the poor are feckless – are wrong.
(16) He said: "It is utterly shocking and I hope that the ministers will take note of this and get hold of some of these feckless fathers, drag them off, put them in chains if necessary, make them work and make them pay back society for the cost of bringing up the children they chose to bring into this world."
(17) It was a stern lecture, naturally, but nothing like the old days when a performance that feckless would have seen a wedding set's worth of crockery smashed against the dressing-room walls.
(18) Clarkson previously maligning Mexicans as "lazy, feckless and flatulent", or making jokes about "black Muslim lesbians", or Sterling twice being fined by the department of justice for being a racist slumlord, didn't quite cut it.
(19) When Scotsman Harry Stanley was killed by police in the same year after leaving a London pub carrying a table leg and being mistaken for an Irishman with a sawn-off shotgun he was demonised as a feckless drunk.
(20) Coalitions involve compromises, but it is a shameful moment to see Britain's most pro-European party, and pro-European Tories such as Kenneth Clarke, trooping into the lobbies tonight in support of such a foolish, feckless and futile bill.
(n.) The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes; power to discern and execute; ability to perceive and perform; expertness; aptitude; as, the skill of a mathematician, physician, surgeon, mechanic, etc.
(n.) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
(n.) Any particular art.
(v. t.) To know; to understand.
(v. i.) To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance.
(v. i.) To make a difference; to signify; to matter; -- used impersonally.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
(2) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(3) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
(4) It appeared that ratings by supervisors were influenced primarily by the interpersonal skills of the residents and secondarily by ability.
(5) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(6) The skill of the surgeon was not a significant factor in maternal deaths.
(7) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
(8) The need for follow-up studies is stressed to allow assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention and to search for protective factors, successful coping skills, strategies and adaptational resources.
(9) Independent t test results indicated nurses assigned more importance to psychosocial support and skills training than did patients; patients assigned more importance to sensation--discomfort than did nurses.
(10) Both microcomputer use and tracking patient care experience are technical skills similar to learning any medical procedure with which physicians are already familiar.
(11) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
(12) A teaching package is described for teaching interview skills to large blocks of medical students whilst on their psychiatric attachment.
(13) The intervention represented, for the intervention team, an opportunity to learn community organization and community education skills through active participation in the community.
(14) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
(15) There is extant a population of subjects who have average or better than average interpretive reading skills as measured by standardized tests but who read slowly and inefficiently.
(16) To not use those skills would be like Gigi Buffon not using his enormous hands.
(17) The focus will be on assessment of the gravid woman's anxiety levels and coping skills.
(18) The functional role of corticocortical input projecting to the motor cortex in learning motor skills was investigated by training 3 cats with and without the projection area.
(19) Gauging the proper end point of methohexital administration is accomplished through skilled observation of the patient.
(20) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.